Senior Data Center Energy Strategic Negotiator, Energy and Power

Google LLC; Midlothian (TX); Sur place; USD 176 000 - 256 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off (20 days/yr)

Sick time (40 hours/yr)

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Public holidays

Résumé du poste

Google is seeking a Strategic Negotiator to lead energy supply formation and commercial structuring, including PPAs and microgrid agreements, to support infrastructure growth. You will manage vendor relationships, present deal recommendations to tech leadership, and help optimize operating costs across Google's data center portfolio.

You will work with project teams on negotiations, market analysis, and integration with energy and infrastructure executives to enable strategic decisions and cost

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of energy project development, utility procurement, or finance/consulting experience.
• 10 years of experience developing/structuring PPAs for microgrids, BTM energy, gas turbines, BESS, fuel cell or geothermal energy.

Responsabilités

• Lead complex energy supply formation and commercial structuring with PPAs, microgrid agreements, and utility energy supply arrangements.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams: market analysis, economic modeling, risk assessment, and leadership alignment.
• Develop relationships with energy partners including IPPs, utilities, and energy stakeholders.
• Contribute to Google's data center portfolio through energy due diligence and project development.

Connaissances

Energy market analysis

PPAs / energy contracts

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Formation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Description du poste

The application window will be open until at least November 02, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date. Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Thornton, CO, USA; Midlothian, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA; Reston, VA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in energy project development, utility procurement, or finance/consulting roles.
• 10 years of experience developing or structuring power purchase agreements for the use of Microgrids, Behind-the-Meter (BTM) power agreements, gas turbines, BESS, fuel cell or geothermal energy

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in indirect taxes, economic development policy, infrastructure development, agreement drafting, and presentation development, along with data center real estate markets.

About The Job

Google's infrastructure needs go far beyond server computers. As Google's products and services scale the globe, the Strategic Negotiation team works behind the scenes to secure infrastructure for Google's future -- everything from underwater cables to physical data center space. As a Strategic Negotiator, you combine your deep market knowledge of a given sector with tech industry savvy to negotiate cost-effective solutions to support Google's infrastructure growth. You'll work with specific project teams on negotiating deals, managing vendor and partner relationships and presenting deal recommendations to our Tech leadership. Your successful negotiations have the potential to save Google millions of dollars in operating costs and impact every part of the business.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

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• Lead complex energy supply formation and commercial structuring, including behind-the-meter clean baseload energy agreements involving Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with energy suppliers, microgrid agreements, as well as utility energy supply agreements including special tariff development and sleeving structures.
• Drive several cross functional workstreams including regional market trend analysis, project economic and generation dispatch modeling, risk assessment across accounting and treasury functions, technical engineering analysis of system design, and leadership alignment across energy and infrastructure executives to achieve successful decision-making and approvals.
• Seek and identify new energy-ready sites, while developing and strengthening relationships with key energy partners including Independent Power Producers (IPPs), utilities, co-ops, and other related energy stakeholders.
• Contribute to the growth of Google's data center portfolio through energy due diligence during site selection and data center project development

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

US: $176000 - $256000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits